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AHEYM-2013-148 · Debrecen

Debrecen (Debretsin in the project's index) 2013-05-27 3 min · 2 stretches Yiddish 85% Russian 5% Hungarian 10%

Not online: the recording is held by the project and is not on Media Collections Online, YouTube or archive.org. Everything below is a paraphrase of a machine transcript, the weaker of this site's two transcript layers — see how it was made.

Summary

Final file of a consecutive session recorded in Debrecen (Debretsin) on 27 May 2013; the index names no interviewee. The first minutes continue a conversation about a man from the speaker's village who had been in a camp, and about whether God can help. From about 01:53 Kerler winds up the visit with farewells and good wishes, and the file ends.

Stretches

00:00–01:53

The informant talks about a man from her village who was in a camp (Auschwitz is mentioned at the start), and Kerler asks who told her about him. The conversation turns to whether God can help or not, which the informant says she does not know. The Yiddish is poorly transcribed, so the details are uncertain.

01:53–02:57

Kerler closes the session. He says they will meet again, that he hopes contact will be made within a year, and wishes the household good health and strength. Farewell exchanges.

Informal